• Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    Unfortunately, trying to set up this particular “rage bait” is also ignorant and uneducated. The numbers we use are derived from Arabic numerals. But modern Arabic numerals does not look like the ones we use in the Latin Alphabet. They can also change a bit depending on which arabic country you’re in.

    If you’re an average “westerner” you probably don’t know what modern arabic numerals look like. And learning them would be required to know which symbol means what.

    That being said. Teaching children that different children across the world have different symbols for things is still a good thing to teach them. While also teaching them there are other systems than our base 10 system. Such as the Duodecimal system.